About Susan
Susan Josephson is a Florida-licensed mental health counselor with 25 years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She offers calm, straightforward support and adapts conversations to each person's situation. Her approach is respectful and grounded in compassion.
If taking the first step feels hard, she aims to make that step feel manageable. Susan focuses on practical strategies for common struggles like trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, and depression.
Background and approach
She listens first to understand what matters most to each person. Together she and the client set realistic goals and decide what to work on next. Her work often blends client-centered care with tools from cognitive behavioral therapy.
That means sessions balance open listening with clear ideas for changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. The goal is to build skills people can use between sessions. Susan also brings experience with addictions, relationship and family concerns, grief, and career stress.
She supports people facing life transitions, caregiver strain, and issues tied to aging or disability. Multicultural concerns and trauma-related conditions are part of her background too. Sessions are offered in English and are available through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
A subscription model is used and can be canceled at any time. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions based on availability.
How Susan Uses Client-Centered and CBT Online
Susan works from two straightforward approaches. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's experience. Sessions emphasize empathy and building a trusting working relationship before deciding what to try next. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, involves identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new ways of thinking and behaving. CBT can be useful for anxiety, low mood, and stress by teaching concrete skills to manage symptoms.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped before. Together they try methods and adjust the plan as needed, balancing listening with practical exercises so the work fits real life.
Online formats make that process easier to fit into a busy schedule. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skill practice and deeper conversation. Phone sessions reduce bandwidth needs and can be easier for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for quick support, brief coaching, or for people who prefer writing instead of talking. These options offer flexibility and help people connect with a licensed professional when in-person visits are not convenient.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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